The New Architecture and The Bauhaus

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One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new arti...

One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.

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But in all this interesting work the questions that engrossed me most were the minimum dwelling for the lowest-paid section of the community; the middle-class home regarded as an economically equipped unit complete in itself; and what structural form each ought logically to assumeâ€”â€”whether as part of a multi-storied block, a flat in a building of medium height, or a small separate house. And bey...

2013-09-28 21:46

But in all this interesting work the questions that engrossed me most were the minimum dwelling for the lowest-paid section of the community; the middle-class home regarded as an economically equipped unit complete in itself; and what structural form each ought logically to assume——whether as part of a multi-storied block, a flat in a building of medium height, or a small separate house. And beyond these again loomed the rational form for the whole city as a planned organism.

Thus our informing conception of the basic unity of all design in relation to life was in diametrical opposition to that of 'art for art's sake',and the even more dangerous philosophy in sprang from: business as an end in itself.

2013-09-28 17:20

Thus our informing conception of the basic unity of all design in relation to life was in diametrical opposition to that of 'art for art's sake',and the even more dangerous philosophy in sprang from: business as an end in itself.

Seen from the skies, th leafy house-tops of the cities of the future will look like endless chains of hanging gardens. But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.

2011-03-20 01:57

Seen from the skies, th leafy house-tops of the cities of the future will look like endless chains of hanging gardens. But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.

Seen from the skies, th leafy house-tops of the cities of the future will look like endless chains of hanging gardens. But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.

2011-03-20 01:57

Seen from the skies, th leafy house-tops of the cities of the future will look like endless chains of hanging gardens. But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.

Thus our informing conception of the basic unity of all design in relation to life was in diametrical opposition to that of 'art for art's sake',and the even more dangerous philosophy in sprang from: business as an end in itself.

2013-09-28 17:20

Thus our informing conception of the basic unity of all design in relation to life was in diametrical opposition to that of 'art for art's sake',and the even more dangerous philosophy in sprang from: business as an end in itself.

But in all this interesting work the questions that engrossed me most were the minimum dwelling for the lowest-paid section of the community; the middle-class home regarded as an economically equipped unit complete in itself; and what structural form each ought logically to assumeâ€”â€”whether as part of a multi-storied block, a flat in a building of medium height, or a small separate house. And bey...

2013-09-28 21:46

But in all this interesting work the questions that engrossed me most were the minimum dwelling for the lowest-paid section of the community; the middle-class home regarded as an economically equipped unit complete in itself; and what structural form each ought logically to assume——whether as part of a multi-storied block, a flat in a building of medium height, or a small separate house. And beyond these again loomed the rational form for the whole city as a planned organism.

But in all this interesting work the questions that engrossed me most were the minimum dwelling for the lowest-paid section of the community; the middle-class home regarded as an economically equipped unit complete in itself; and what structural form each ought logically to assumeâ€”â€”whether as part of a multi-storied block, a flat in a building of medium height, or a small separate house. And bey...

2013-09-28 21:46

But in all this interesting work the questions that engrossed me most were the minimum dwelling for the lowest-paid section of the community; the middle-class home regarded as an economically equipped unit complete in itself; and what structural form each ought logically to assume——whether as part of a multi-storied block, a flat in a building of medium height, or a small separate house. And beyond these again loomed the rational form for the whole city as a planned organism.

Thus our informing conception of the basic unity of all design in relation to life was in diametrical opposition to that of 'art for art's sake',and the even more dangerous philosophy in sprang from: business as an end in itself.

2013-09-28 17:20

Thus our informing conception of the basic unity of all design in relation to life was in diametrical opposition to that of 'art for art's sake',and the even more dangerous philosophy in sprang from: business as an end in itself.

Seen from the skies, th leafy house-tops of the cities of the future will look like endless chains of hanging gardens. But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.

2011-03-20 01:57

Seen from the skies, th leafy house-tops of the cities of the future will look like endless chains of hanging gardens. But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.